Friday, March 2019
Monday, April 2019
America and the New Protectionism
Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist How Goes the Trade War?
Find out more »PER Distinguished Lecture: Harald Uhlig
Professor Harald Uhlig will consider the possibility of a future world where a privately issued currency such as bitcoin is used as a perfect substitute for goods purchases alongside an official currency such as the U.S. dollar, issued by a central bank who seeks to achieve a particular dollar inflation target. This framework will be used to derive implications for pricing, extending classic results by Kareken-Wallace, conditions that imply absence of speculation and consequences for dollar monetary policy. RSVP for this event
Find out more »Friday, May 2019
Workshop on Efficient Coding and Resource-Limited Cognition
This workshop is currently full. Please contact econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. Program Schedule 8:30-9:00: Arrival and Breakfast SESSION 1: Efficient Compressed Representations (Chair: Rava Azeredo da Silveira, ENS) 9:00-10:00: Keynote Lecture: Naftali Tishby , “Information Constrained Decision Making and Planning” 10:00-10:40: Noga Zaslavsky , “Efficient Coding and the Evolution of Semantic Systems” 10:40-11:10: Break 11:10-11:50: Matthew Botvinick , “Deep Learning and Structure-sensitive Credit Assignment” 11:50-12:30: Sophia Sanborn , “Efficient Coding Under Reward: Compressing to Learn in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” 12:30-13:00: …
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